Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

What Does a Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood Do?

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
• 2Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
• 3Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
• 4Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
• 5Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
• 6Monitor sawing machines, adjusting speed and tension and clearing jams to ensure proper operation.
• 7Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
• 8Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.

Required Skills

• Adobe Acrobat
• Automated inventory software
• Computerized numerical control CNC software
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood Salary